Hiroko
given name · Japanese · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Hiroko is a given name, most frequently recorded in Japan, where it is the 61st most common given name. It appears chiefly in Japanese and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: ‘Generous child’; ‘prosperous child’.
- JPJapan1 in 1.1K◐
- USUnited States1 in 118K
- AOAngola1 in 46K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈3.5K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 177 ●
- 1 in 118K ◐
across 7 countries
recorded for this name
69K records
Official registry-verified
United States
Spellings & scripts●
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
‘Generous child’; ‘prosperous child’.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JP Japan | #61 | 64,677 | 56K rec. | — | — | Hiroko | 148 |
| US United States | — | 2,825 | 12K rec. | 1 in 118K | 2.8K | Hiroko | 177 |
| BR Brazil | — | 574 | — | 1 in 369K | 701 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 401 | 371 rec. | — | listed | Hiroko | 35 |
| CA Canada | — | 363 | 359 rec. | — | — | Hiroko | 31 |
| TH Thailand | — | 122 | 76 rec. | — | — | Hiroko | 28 |
| IT Italy | — | 64 | 70 rec. | — | — | Hiroko | 7 |
| SG Singapore | — | 64 | 65 rec. | — | — | Hiroko | 13 |
| EG Egypt | — | 60 | 56 rec. | — | — | Hiroko | 5 |
| BO Bolivia | — | 60 | 0 rec. | — | — | Hiroko | 3 |
| MA Morocco | — | 51 | 51 rec. | — | — | Hiroko | 6 |
| AO Angola | #977 | 49 | 49 rec. | — | — | Hiroko | 1 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Japanese78K67%
- English21K18%
- Portuguese10K9%
- Spanish2.3K2%
- French6851%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese | 77,773 | 67% |
| English | 21,276 | 18% |
| Portuguese | 10,372 | 9% |
| Spanish | 2,273 | 2% |
| French | 685 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1914 | 5 |
| 1916 | 8 |
| 1918 | 6 |
| 1919 | 19 |
| 1920 | 10 |
| 1921 | 11 |
| 1922 | 8 |
| 1923 | 13 |
| 1924 | 9 |
| 1925 | 14 |
| 1926 | 13 |
| 1927 | 11 |
| 1928 | 8 |
| 1929 | 12 |
| 1930 | 9 |
| 1931 | 9 |
| 1932 | 13 |
| 1933 | 10 |
| 1934 | 11 |
| 1935 | 12 |
| 1936 | 7 |
| 1937 | 5 |
| 1939 | 9 |
| 1940 | 9 |
| 1942 | 5 |
| 1945 | 6 |
| 1971 | 6 |
| 1975 | 5 |
| 1976 | 5 |
| 1977 | 5 |
| 1980 | 5 |
| 1981 | 8 |
| 1982 | 9 |
| 1984 | 6 |
| 1985 | 5 |
| 1988 | 8 |
| 1989 | 9 |
| 1992 | 5 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 38 years between 1914–1992. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Chikage Ōgib. 1933JPnot in their usual nameJapanese politician (1933–2023)
- Hiroko Morib. 1933JPJapanese voice actress and actress
- Hiroko Berghauerb. 1935JPJapanese model (1935-2003)
- Hiroko Nakamurab. 1944JPJapanese pianist (1944-2016)
- Hayashi Hirokob. 1955JPJapanese journalist
- Hiroko Hayashib. 1959JPJapanese actor and singer
- Hiroko Yakushimarub. 1964JPJapanese actress and singer
- Hiroko Hatanob. 1975JPJapanese actor and model
- Hiroko Konishib. 1975JPJapanese voice actress, singer-songwriter, musician, researcher
- Hiroko Anzaib. 1979JPJapanese actress, singer and model
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 25 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.8K | #5,853 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 701 | #5,893 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 692 | #11,693 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 574 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 558 | #12,170 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 536 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 426 | #19,641 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1950 | 408 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1940 | 268 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1940 | 140 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1950 | 128 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1930 | 110 | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 136 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Hiroko?
- We estimate roughly 3.5 thousand people bear Hiroko (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Hiroko have the most bearers?
- Hiroko is most frequently recorded in Japan, where it is most often spelled hiroko.
- How common is Hiroko compared with other names?
- In Japan, Hiroko is the 61st most common given name of 355,102 given names recorded there.
- Is Hiroko a male or female name?
- Hiroko is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Hiroko mean?
- Recorded meaning: ‘Generous child’; ‘prosperous child’.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hirokoThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.
About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hiroko” — the 61st most common given name in Japan. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.